I had previously noticed that when I ran emacs in a vnc server on my home system, the Alt key seemed to disappear. While racking my brains to figure out what to look for, I happened to notice that if I started emacs by hand in a terminal, the Alt key worked fine as a prefix, so I started binary searching through various scripts, and finally discovered this completely inexplicable tid-bit: I have this little script that starts emacs with a different title if it is running as root: #!/bin/sh if [ `whoami` = "root" ] then exec emacs --title='ROOT emacs@zooty ROOT' else exec emacs fi That script works fine in the normal X server, but when the X server is vnc, the emacs that starts up cannot use the Alt prefix key. If I change /bin/sh on the first line to /bin/bash, then the Alt key works perfectly! Can anyone imagine any hypothesis for why execing emacs from /bin/sh would act different than execing it from /bin/bash, but only when in a vnc session? This has gotta be the 2nd most mysterious thing I've ever seen a computer do :-). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
